Streamers Adin Ross and FaZe Banks Plan Crypto ‘GTA 6’ Server—Would It Be Banned?

Standard Kick streamer Adin Ross stated he plans to create a crypto-infused customized server for Grand Theft Auto 6 with gaming influencer and FaZe Clan CEO and co-founder Richard “FaZe Banks” Bengtson, as soon as the hotly anticipated title hits cabinets.

However the plan could possibly be doomed from the beginning.

“When GTA 6 drops, me and Ricky are going to make the largest server collectively,” Ross stated throughout a livestream on Monday. “And I promise you, it’s going to be utterly crypto. Every thing pro-crypto about it. It’s going to alter the sport.” 

Banks additional recommended that the server would have an in-game crypto economic system fueled by “a newly-made coin,” whereas Ross stated that the pair would “put some huge cash into it.”

If historical past is something to go by, nevertheless, the server would doubtless get banned—right here’s why.

Again in 2022, Rockstar Video games, the creator of the GTA franchise, revealed an article explaining that player-run servers on Grand Theft Auto On-line (and Crimson Lifeless On-line) might now not use cryptocurrencies, crypto belongings, or NFTs in any manner. 

On the time, customers had been operating GTA 5/GTA On-line “role-playing servers” strapped with fan-made modifications of the PC recreation. A few of these servers carried out NFTs and crypto into the server as a manner so as to add weight to in-game belongings, or provide unique advantages for gamers.

In response to Rockstar prohibiting crypto utilization, a wave of GTA servers had been pressured to shut.

This included Chicago rapper Durk “Lil Durk” Banks, who had launched an NFT-centric GTA server referred to as The Trenches. Lil Durk’s Solely the Household Gaming group claimed to have been contacted by the authorized counsel of Rockstar’s mother or father firm, Take-Two Interactive.

That stated, there are swirling rumors that GTA 6 could also be a fork within the highway for Rockstar’s anti-crypto sentiment. Way back to 2021, hypothesis has circulated that the upcoming recreation would characteristic in-game Bitcoin rewards, and that crypto funds could possibly be enabled.

However each of those rumors look like unsubstantiated, and Rockstar has but to touch upon the topic with reference to GTA 6. Others imagine that crypto will merely be the butt of the joke all through the sport’s story mode, which is a extra doubtless match based mostly on the way in which that the sequence has repeatedly taken intention at popular culture and society over time.

Take-Two Interactive had put its finger within the crypto pie via cellular writer Zynga, which it acquired in 2022, because it developed NFT cellular recreation Sugartown. On the time of the deal, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick particularly stated that he believed there had been “Web3 alternatives” that the corporations might higher deal with collectively.

Nonetheless, in late 2024, the crypto gaming crew at Zynga spun out of the corporate with its tasks, making a new agency referred to as D20 Labs so the crew might dive deeper into the world of crypto gaming.

Primarily based on Rockstar’s present stance in direction of crypto belongings, it seems doubtless that Ross and Banks gained’t have the ability to function a crypto-fueled GTA 6 server as soon as the sport releases later this yr. However issues can change—the as soon as crypto-skeptic Donald Trump launched a meme coin, in spite of everything.

Decrypt reached out to Rockstar Video games for remark, however didn’t instantly obtain a response.

Edited by Andrew Hayward